class notes

1. OCTOBER SIXTH
DTC356-01

2. Discovering what you want
is at least as important and
finding what you know you
want.

3. Known item searching

6. Discovering what you want
is at least as important and
finding what you know you
want.

8. Where are we going with this?

9. Carol Kuhthau’s ISP
(Information Search Process)

10. • Initiation
• Selection
• Exploration
• Formulation
• Collection
• Presentation
• Assessment

11. Carol Kuhthau’s ISP
(Information Search Process)

12. Carol Kuhthau’s ISP
(Information Search Process)

13. Carol Kuhthau’s ISP
(Information Search Process)

14. So the question is:
• What are the parts of your assigned database that
help searches w/ the various stages of the ISP?
• Initiation
• Selection
• Exploration
• Formulation
• Collection
• Presentation
• Assessment

15. Let’s do some sample searching…

16. • Full text keyword searching: searches all fields
and content for search terms. (You can search the
database even if you don’t know the subject.)
• Controlled Vocabulary: Also known as subjects,
topics, thesaurus, descriptors (major and minor)
• Glossary of terms: Similar to a thesaurus, helps
define terms as used in this tool. (Example: equity
in a sociology database versus in an economics
database.)
• Reference Works: Encyclopedia, dictionaries,
handbooks, and other reference works answer
simple questions scholarly articles assume.